Hill, Caroline Miles (1866-1951)

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Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, May 10, 1909

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 14, 1911

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Caroline Miles Hill to Jane Addams, July 30, 1913

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Birth Date

1866-05

Death Date

1951

Birthplace

Miami, OH

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Caroline Miles Hill was a professor, psychologist, and social worker. She attended the University of Michigan, earning one of the school's first doctorates in 1892. In 1893, she conducted a study at Wellesley College on the psychology of horror in literature, which appeared in the American Journal of Psychology. Hill also worked as a Latin teacher at Friends Academy in Indiana and as a professor at the University of Michigan, Mt. Holyoke College, Wellesley College, and the University of Chicago. In 1891 she became a Fellow in History at Bryn Mawr College. Hill was also an assistant reference librarian at John Crerar Library and manager of the Prairie Weir Farm Summer School for Boys and Girls. In 1938, she wrote The World's Great Religious Poetry.

Hill married William Hill in 1895. The couple adopted a daughter, Cecilia. Hill and her husband later divorced. Hill died in 1951.

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Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

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Female

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1911

Bibliography and Links

Calendar: Undergraduate and Graduate Courses at Bryn Mawr College, 1906, p. 232.

Caroline M Hill, 1910 United States Federal Census

Caroline M Hill, 1930 United States Federal Census

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Jason Colavito, “A Hideous Bit of Morbidity”: An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I, 2012, p. 265.

The Michigan Alumnus, vol. 2, 1895, p. 105.

W. E. Garrison, "The World's Great Religious Poetry. Caroline Miles Hill ," The Journal of Religion 19, no. 4 (Oct., 1939): 408.

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“Hill, Caroline Miles (1866-1951),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 27, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/4507.